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Foreign language learning with Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Level 2 with Audio Companion is for intermediate-level language learners. The software lets you interact and engage. By the time you complete this level, you¿ll be able to talk about your environment, give and get directions, tell the time, dine out and more. Now Rosetta Stone with Audio Companion allows the learner to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go! What is Audio Companion? Audio Companion CDs are activities that correspond to the Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. The learner can listen to Audio Companion and practice what they¿ve been learning on the computer, turning travel time into productive language learning time. Audio Companion lets the student access the power of Rosetta Stone lessons whenever and wherever they want, they can play the CD¿s on a stereo, or download them to a MP3 player. It empowers the student and helps reinforce the lessons in any busy lifestyle!

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Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to give the voice inside of you a new language. The method used recreates the natural way you learned your first language, revealing skills that you already have. This approach has won numerous awards, and has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world. Join the language revolution today. Only with Rosetta Stone.

The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits your life.

Learn Naturally Learn your next language the same way you learned your first language. Dynamic Immersion empowers you to see, hear and comprehend without translating or memorizing. You already have this ability. Rosetta Stone simply unlocks it.

Engage Interactively Get feedback to move forward. You learn best by doing, and you'll apply what you've learned to get to the next step. Rosetta Stone adapts to your individual needs and skills, because you drive the program with your progress.

Speak Confidently Start speaking immediately. From the very first lesson, you'll speak. You'll begin with essential basics, which form the building blocks of the language. Soon you'll create new sentences on your own, using words you've learned.

Have Fun Best of all, Rosetta Stone is addictive. With every entertaining activity, you'll feel success. You'll want to use Rosetta Stone to have that next moment, that next breakthrough. So you'll keep using it, and you'll learn more!

That's language-learning success. That's Rosetta Stone.

No translation or memorization required.

The most effective way to learn a new language is to be surrounded by it. When you were an infant, your parents taught you this way, by intuitively associating words with images. That's the ultimate language lab, but most language-learning programs completely ignore this.

Think about all of the ways you've tried to learn a language: classes at school, tapes and cassettes, even software that uses your native language as a base for your next one. What do they all have in common? Translation and memorization.

Instead of taking a "direct flight" from your brain to your new language, translation and memorization connects you to your old language. You always have to "fly" from your brain, to your native tongue ... and then translate what you've memorized to communicate.

That might work for a few words, but what happens when you get to a sentence or phrase? When you have to change tenses? You're going to make a lot of "connecting flights." That's why those other methods are so frustrating ... and why they fail.

Enter Dynamic Immersion. This method encourages you to think like a baby. You'll pair words with vivid, real-life images and make connections between things you know and the new language. Soon, you'll be thinking in a new language, stringing words together into phrases that you create.

Innovative technology. Rosetta Stone places this Dynamic Immersion method at the core of a suite of software that works with you to develop your skills. The simple, intuitive interface helps to keep you engaged in the solution, while advanced speech recognition technology makes certain that you're speaking correctly and accurately. Best of all, Rosetta Stone never leaves you behind. You'll only move forward when you're ready, when you've become comfortable and confident.

Explore your environment and move forward: Level 2 With Level 2, you'll take all of the skills you've learned in Level 1 and see how they allow you to communicate and connect with the language. You'll give and get directions while learning about using transportation. In addition, Level 2 invites you into basic social interactions, where you'll dine out, tell time and more.

Audio Companion With Audio Companion, you'll enhance the Rosetta Stone experience wherever you go. You'll learn new skills on the computer, and then reinforce what you've learned with Audio Companion. Simply play the CDs on a stereo or download them to a MP3 Player. Each Audio Companion activity corresponds to a lesson in the Rosetta Stone software, so you can turn your travel time into productive language-learning time.

Inside the box, you'll find:

Version 3 Personal Edition CD-ROM software for Level 2 (Windows/Mac)

Headset microphone

User's guide

Audio Companion, a multiple-CD set to play or download to your MP3 player

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

not too shabbyAug. 25 2008

By
Gabriel Esposito
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I think this is a strong program. It has many useful sentences and phrases, and it pounds them into your brain. My only complaint is that its a little too easy in the beginning. I have only studied some spanish on my own, and I never used the first level of Rosetta. So if you know even a little bit of spanish, I wouldn't purchase level 1. It's probably too easy. Also, whenever you click the right answer, you hear the same sound effect over and over and over again. To me, if somebody is going to pay 265 dollars for a program, at least make some different sound effects in the program!

Since so many of the readers of learning-Spanish newsletter have asked me to provide a review of the newest version of Rosetta Stone Spanish software, here's my review:

Good Points of Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 Level 2:

1. The interface of this software has been greatly improved by Rosetta Stone. The old software interface was very ugly and archaic looking. But this interface is much more attractive with contemporary photos.

2. Much more content is covered in this version than the previous version of Level 2. This version teaches indirect pronouns. The previous version of Level 2 did not teach indirect pronouns. This version does a pretty good job at teaching the proper use of "te" and "le", etc. This version also covers the familiar form of "you" or the "tu" form in Spanish. (As usual, I am omitting Spanish punctuation and other Spanish characters from my review because the Spanish characters often appear as strange looking characters/letters in my Amazon reviews.)

3. You will also learn the "imperative" or commands which is a good change from the previous version which failed to cover this topic.

4. Rosetta Stone Spanish Level 2 also does a great job of teaching the two forms of the future tense in Spanish.

5. You will also find that this software does a thorough job of covering the past tense in Spanish. Both the preterite and the imperfect tense.

6. They have also improved the software by adding lots of dialogs. The added dialogs will certainly improve the students' listening comprehension.

7. This version of the software is also a lot more interactive than the previous version.

Bad Points of Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 Level 2:

1. It is pretty hard to find any bad points about this software. I had to think long and hard. But one disadvantage that you will find is that it doesn't teach some of the topics that should be included in a Level 2 Spanish course, such as the "subjunctive." At the time that I am writing this review, I have not reviewed Level 3 of this software. So I do not know if Level 3 covers the subjunctive. If it does cover the subjunctive, then it probably fails to cover other important Spanish verb tenses, namely, conditional, past perfect tense, conditional perfect, present perfect subjunctive, pluperfect subjunctive, future perfect, etc. It would not be feasible to cover all of these intermediate/advanced topics in Level 3 when Level 2 hasn't even introduced the subjunctive.

2. The other negative about this software is that it lacks the type of interactivity that is required to reach a level of conversational proficiency. Although this version of the software is also a lot more interactive than the previous version, it does not have the type of interactivity that is needed to reach conversational proficiency in Spanish. You will find yourself clicking your mouse button more with this version than the previous version. But you will not find that this software has many exercises that require the user to speak out loud and then form her own sentences in Spanish. And that's what it takes to reach proficiency or fluency.

3. The other problem, as with the previous version of the software, the Rosetta Stone method is not the most effective method for an adult to learn a foreign language. (For a child this method probably can not be beat. )

Considering the drastic improvement of this software compared to the previous version, I am still giving it 4 stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Rosetta StoneJune 7 2009

By
Elizabeth Delabaume
- Published on Amazon.com

I have taken many Spanish Courses over the years. I am finding this method the most useful.